Here’s a reminder that sometimes, criminals lie. Yes, we know you may not really need that reminder, and sometimes criminals tell the truth and organizations lie or wordsmith, but in today’s news, The Register reports: A digital burglar is claiming to have nabbed a trove of “highly sensitive” data from Check Point – something the […]
KXAN in Texas reports: Unsealed federal court records revealed “a security researcher and co-founder of Anonymous,” which is a worldwide hacking group, has been arrested in Canada and accused of allegedly hacking the Texas GOP website (texasgop.org) on Sept. 11, 2021. According to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice, Aubrey Cottle, […]
The Hill reports: The $350 million T-Mobile agreed to pay in a 2022 class action settlement will finally start going out to customers next month. The class action lawsuit came after a cyberattack in August 2021 compromised the personal data of 76 million T-Mobile customers in the U.S. The data that was breached included customers’ […]
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada recently announced an online tool to help businesses and federal institutions that experience a privacy breach to assess whether the breach is likely to create a real risk of significant harm to individuals:
They publicly denied, denied, denied having a breach of Oracle Cloud after someone put data up for sale, but while Oracle was publicly denying any breach, their customers and researchers were confirming that there had been one. Now we learn that Oracle Health had been telling some hospitals and healthcare clients that there had been […]
Top Class Actions reports: Rite Aid agreed to a $6.8 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims it failed to prevent a 2024 data breach that compromised customer information. The settlement benefits consumers whose personal information was compromised in the Rite Aid data breach on June 6, 2024. According to the lawsuit, Rite Aid […]
Radio New Zealand reports that a “malicious actor” accessed and downloaded private information about staff in districts in the lower North Island,” according to Health NZ: In a message that has gone out to staff today, the agency said it had reported the incident to police and would be publishing a “public privacy notification” for staff at […]
BankInfoSecurity reports: An apparent Chinese cyberespionage operation lurked inside the network of an Asian telecom for four years, camouflaging its presence through nested encryption and lightweight web shells. Incident response firm Sygnia has uncovered the operation, dubbing the threat actor “Weaver Ant.” It exhibits several characteristics of a Chinese nation-state threat actor, including a wide reliance on […]
MSN reports: Cybercrime detectives are investigating a “major data breach” of the NSW court’s website involving the leaking of 9000 sensitive court documents, including apprehended violence orders [AVO]. The breach, which was discovered on Tuesday and referred to the State Crime Command’s Cybercrime Squad, impacted the NSW Online Registry Website, an online platform which provides […]
The Washington Post reports: If you’re one of the 15 million people who shared your DNA with 23andMe, it’s time to delete your data. The genetic information company, best known for its saliva test kits, announced Sunday that it is headed to bankruptcy court to sell its assets. And 23andMe’s financial distress prompted California Attorney General Rob […]
